DevOps IoT Engineer – M2M

DevOps IoT Engineer - M2M

Verisure, operating under two brand names (Securitas Direct & Verisure) seeking an experienced engineer to join the IT / M2M team of a security-hardware company. The role combines hands-on prototyping, operations optimization and production implementation across device, platform and cloud layers. The candidate will collaborate with Product Owners and a highly operative team to define, validate (PoC) and deploy improvements that increase reliability, reduce incident volume and streamline lifecycle operations.

Technology plays an important role in our value creation. It is at the core of the service and operations we provide to our customers. It is what enables our people to do our job, protecting what matters most. But it is also at the heart of our future value creation. It is at the core of the new services we will offer, building on our legacy of value accretive innovation through deploying world-class products and services.

Strategic context and Value proposition

This role will be a key contributor developing our complex alarm systems for the secure and connected smart home, including development of new alarm devices or the evolution of existing products, always into the context of our core IoT Development Team. We are looking for a highly driven, talented and experienced engineer that can take on the role as DevOps for our alarm systems. The role requires a broad and deep level of technical understanding, you must also have good social skills and really like to work together with others solving issues and creating solutions.

Our Technology objectives for the coming years are ambitious. We must continue to support our countries and customers with secured and world-class quality, service and product performance. We must lead in product and service innovation and increase our innovation pace. We need to support our ambitious growth in customers and geographies. For this, we must provide key capabilities, Key talent and tools supporting business efficiency and commercial priorities.

Responsibilities will include:

Hard Skills

• Deep SW development skills, experience in microservices rollout in kubernetes
• Familiarity in CI/CD techniques and from scratch promoting SW from legacy environment/techniques to new DevOps paradigms. Experience in CI pipeline (Jenkins, Artifactory, Liquibase, Sonar)
• Expert in deployments automation.
• Expert working in an agile environment (SCRUM, KANBAN, SAFE, LESS, etc…) with co-located teams
• Large expertise in Spring ecosystem and Microservices based on Java / Spring Boot
• Strong scripting skills (Python preferred) and comfort building PoCs quickly.
• Large expertise in API design and architecture strategy.
• Expertise in high level architecture design.
• Experience with monitoring solutions, such as Grafana and time-series databases (InfluxDB, Prometheus or similar) and Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, transforms, Kibana) to expose telemetry.
• Good problem-solving and communication skills; ability to translate operational needs into technical solutions.
• Willingness to learn cellular/networking concepts; basic cellular knowledge is a plus.
• 3+ years in roles combining development and operations (IoT, M2M, DevOps, SRE or similar).

Soft Skills

• Team player
• Communication skills to align product owner, scrum master and development team necessities
• Focus on making things happen
• Self-organized
• Goal focused
• High capacity setting up and AS-IS assessment, and being able to move forward into a new TO-BE way of working
• Experience with security and device lifecycle management for embedded products.

What we expect:

Have deep knowledge of the SW into his domain and have technical skills to change it and update it if necessary

Validate SW designs:

• Archetypes
• Design patterns
• Ensuring best practices as a transversal topic for every Scrum teams in the department.

Design and validation of high level architecture:

• Take into account NFR: availability, throughput, latency, security, scalability, maintainability, resilience, automation in all topics (QA, Service,…), etc.
• Brokers (RabbitMQ, Kafka, JMS)
• Load Balancers, DNS/GTM/LTM
• Kubernetes, rancher, docker
• SQL Data bases (Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, )
• NoSQL Database (MongoDB)
• Cache DB (Redis, Coherence,…),
• Cloud (AWS, Azure,…)
• Big Data, BPM, ESB, Rules Engine, API Management…

Ensures continuous integration:

• Promote SW to repository: GIT (Gitlab, Bitbucket)
• Verifies Jenkins pipeline
• Verifies artifacts are deployed seamlessly into different environments: Functional Environment, Integrated Test Environment, Production
• Ensures automatic tests are written and performed

Location

Permanent hire can be based in Madrid, Pozuelo (Hybrid mode)

We see this role ascritical for the achievement of Verisure’s growth and organizational transformation goals.

As result, we are looking for a high potential / top performer individual who will combine great time management skills as well as an analytical mind-set. The ideal candidate will be a strategic solution provider as well as operational enabler.

• Master/ B.A in Computer Engineer or Telecommunications.
• Fluent level of English (B2 or higher)
• +7 years of proven experience in SW Development.

Competencies

• Prior experience with cellular modem management (AT commands, IMS, VoLTE) or device SIM lifecycle.
• Strong analytical skills
• Accuracy, attention to detail, and strong willingness to learn
• An enthusiastic and high energy individual with a strong drive to create a positive work environment
• Independent problem solver that can set priorities, make high quality judgements, and enable efficient decision making
• A match to our culture - high energy and flex, fantastic at communication and huge amounts of drive. Collaborative working is key!

Strong fit with our Company DNA

• Passionate in Everything We Do: Our people have a sense of energy that is unmistakable, one that drives us to delight our customers and focus on creating impact quickly.
• Committed to Making a Difference: When we say we will do something; we deliver with excellence. We are accountable, focused and operate with discipline.
• Always Innovating: We believe that Innovation can be big or small; it’s a continuous state of mind that inspires us to think differently and always make things better. We are risk takers and we learn continuously.
• Winning as a Team: Our people know that by leveraging one another’s strengths, investing in and developing our team’s capability and by collaborating well, we will win.
• With Trust & Responsibility: Operating with integrity is core to our success. We are humble, honest and value deep mastery and expertise. We do the right thing, always.